This year makes the first year of the « Culture City of East Asia » project, which was agreed on by cultural affairs ministers from Japan, China and South Korea last year. The aim of the project is to promote understanding and a sense of unity among the three nations, said Kimiyoshi Matsumoto, a Yokohama city official in charge of the project. « It was Japan that first proposed making something like the European Capital of Culture’ in Asia, » he said, referring to the cultural exchange project by the European Union…READ MORE
